For all our love of the new technological age that we live, I continue to by mesmerized by the levels of anger I feel radiating throughout our society. The zones where such things are not visibly present continue to become smaller and smaller, withdrawing to isolated zones of things like old music or old entertainment or old books (simply because the hyper-sensitive issues of our day were not thought of or imagined in those times). Imbibe of any modern media or any discussion which is not laser-beam focused on resolving an issue and you will find yourself wandering into a zone of anger or rage of disgust.
We seem to now live in a world that is lit mostly by hate.
Hate is exciting. Hate is cool. Hate allows you to hurl epithets and rile up your allies while tearing down your opponents. Hate emboldens the worst in human nature by making actions acceptable because they are against the hated. Hate is the fuel which is burned to make progress, the altar on which the future is sacrificed to appease the present.
One might think that the new year might have made me more hopeful, at least in this aspect. Sadly this is not so: with the oncoming of the New Year - the last of this decade, interestingly enough - I look upon a society that is more fractured not less, a civilization that no longer has any moorings in the past but seems intent to float on the River of Fate before it crashes on the Rocks of Reality.
Even then, the last words many will spew from their mouths will be the very hate that brought them to this end in the first place.
We are nearing, or maybe in, the time of Revelation.
ReplyDeleteAnd the demons have spent 50 years or so raising generations of "feel" don't think; so it's no wonder these areas are growing and not diminishing.
Sad.
God bless.
Well said.
ReplyDeleteHate is not the worst thing in the world. But, it's the last stop on the trail to something much, much worse. There's a point where blind hate, boiling blood, and the shouting stops, and you devolve into something else. Something that is malevolent, calculating and cunning. It's that point where that person who hates decides to do something about that which he hates. He stops hating, and starts plotting, conspiring, and scheming. Vengeance is something that is truly scary...
ReplyDeleteLinda, I have (finally) managed to give up calling the time of Revelation - that said, I suspect it will look suspiciously a great deal like now- only worse.
ReplyDeleteTheresa - Thank you very much and thanks for stopping by!
ReplyDeleteGlen - a very cogent observation.
ReplyDeleteThe item that set me off was not just the current general malaise, but a specific article earlier this week where five Polish girls died in an escape room fire. The response from this website, theoretically more along my way of observing the political world and (in theory) Christian, was appalling: they were idiots, deserved to die, and managed to "escape".
So many have become so used to hating that they now cannot do anything else.